A coach's choice of formation must be a blend of two factors. First is the coach's own philosophy of how the game should be played. The second is the way the formation fits the players at the coach's disposal...

The summer of 2012 was the first truly outward sign of the financial distress AC Milan have suffered over the last half a decade. It was then that the club sold both Thiago Silva and Zlatan Ibrahimovic to Paris Saint-Germain...

AC Milan stayed with Real Madrid until the end. Only a protracted shootout decided their final game in the International Champions Cup on Thursday night in Shanghai, with Madrid winning 10-9 on penalties...

The day fans of AC Milan and the 19 other Serie A teams have been waiting for finally arrived on Monday. The fixture lists for the 2015-16 season were finally released, letting every team know who they're going to be playing when...

Luiz Adriano chose the No. 9, the number worn by Filippo Inzaghi and Marco van Basten . The number, like the team, has been let down in recent years, going to Pato , then Alessandro Matri and Mattia Destro ...

Throughout his whole AC Milan career, Andrea Bertolacci will have that transfer fee to justify. The club paid €20 million for the 24-year-old midfielder, one of the biggest deals in all of Europe this summer...

Not bad for a centre-half. The International Champions Cup clash between AC Milan and Inter Milan in Beijing was turning into a rather dull affair. Milan's Philippe Mexes changed all that in the 62nd minute...

Milan playmaker Riccardo Montolivo says he is ready to 'contribute', after an injury hit campaign last season. The Italian international was sidelined with a broken leg before the 2014 World Cup, meaning he missed the start of the Rossoneri's season...

The preparation for the new season begins in earnest for AC Milan and Inter as they come together for a preseason edition of the Derby della Madonnina to open the Chinese portion of the 2015 International Champions Cup ...

The price for AS Roma defender Alessio Romagnoli only went up and up. The number is now €25 million, at least for AC Milan. That's where their bidding currently stands, according to SportMediaset (h/t Football Italia )...

Defense has been AC Milan 's bugaboo for a long time. The team has a long line of defensive legends in its modern history, starting at Franco Baresi and moving through Paolo Maldini, Alessandro Costacurta and Alessandro Nesta...

AC Milan have addressed almost every immediate need this off-season—except the defence. Unfortunately, it’s the most urgent. The back line has suffered ever since the departures of Thiago Silva and Alessandro Nesta in 2012...

After a few weeks of grueling training camps and a pair of friendlies against low-level opposition, AC Milan began their preseason preparations in earnest on Saturday with a 2-1 loss against Olympique Lyonnais at the Stade de Gerland ...